CINCINNATI — Hundreds of people waited in pouring rains Friday for swine flu vaccinations — some in wheelchairs, lawn chairs or baby strollers — but health officials turned many away an hour after the free clinic opened.

"Overwhelming response," said Butler County, Ohio, Health Department director Pat Burg in a statement that no more people could be accepted at the clinic at the fairgrounds in Hamilton, about 30 miles north of Cincinnati.

Burg wasn't immediately available to say how many H1N1 vaccinations the county had planned to give in the two-day clinic.

Pam Bramlage, 30, of West Chester said the line was about six football fields long when she arrived at 8:30 a.m. with her 3-month-old son Patrick. She said she didn't mind waiting nearly three hours for the vaccinations.

"Hopefully, some of my anxiety will slow down now," she told The Cincinnati Enquirer.